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Would you please look at what they sell?!
In vintage_ads, the LJ community where people post --wait for it!-- vintage ads, amadoj0nes posts a Camel advertising in an entry titled "Behold, a blatantly vaginophallic product mascot!" complete with the following sentence(s).

They sell a product that causes cancer.
They sell a product that causes cancer.
They sell a product that causes cancer.
They sell..a product... that causes.. cancer.
They sell a motherf*#@ing product that causes CANCER.

Mostly, folks' replies tend to be from the CRY MOAR variety, to which dear amadoj0nes answers by repeating what seems to be his signature:

They sell a product that causes cancer.

They sell.. A product... That causes...Cancer.

Help me out here. Any generation younger than mine takes about 5-6 repetitions in order for obvious things to sink in.

And people keep saying CRY MOAR.

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queencallipygos
2008-01-14 09:05 pm UTC (link)

I kinda want to take the little liebling aside and tell him how it was growing up in the 70s. His fragile little head would explode.

Tangentially, this reminds me of the conversation I was having with a teenager once who was actually advocating the principle of Mutually Assured Destruction as a valid arms tactic. At one point I said something about how he didn't understand what it was like to live in a world like that because he probably didn't remember the Cold War, and he indignantly replied, "I do too remember the Cold War! My first memory was seeing the Berlin Wall coming down when I was six!"

I wanted to show him old "Duck and Cover" films to screw with him.

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	hallidae 2008-01-14 09:47 pm UTC (link)
	Hell, you wouldn't even have to show him something old. The 2000 live-TV remake of FailSafe scarred the everlovin' hell out of my History of Modern Warfare class. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rimrunner 2008-01-15 02:56 am UTC (link)
	There was a remake of FailSafe? ...damn, I feel old. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hallidae 2008-01-15 09:48 am UTC (link)
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_Safe_%28television%29 (Reply to this)(Parent)

	chibikaijuu 2008-01-15 06:34 am UTC (link)
	There was a remake of FailSafe? God, why? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hallidae 2008-01-15 09:48 am UTC (link)
	I'm surprised you never heard of it. It had Richard Dreyfuss and George Clooney on it, and was broadcasted live with no commercial breaks. It also had the most mindscarring movie ending I'd ever seen. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	chibikaijuu 2008-01-15 04:55 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe I did hear of it, and I've simply blocked out the memory. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rimrunner 2008-01-17 02:35 am UTC (link)
	Dreyfuss and Clooney kind of cancel each other out in my universe. (Although I liked Dreyfuss in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.) I don't watch much TV (and in 2000, I'm not sure I even owned one), so that probably explains it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	caffeine_fairy 2008-01-15 09:54 am UTC (link)
	rocks Protect and Survive, Protect and Survive twitch (Reply to this)(Parent)

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